Typical Mountain Biker Gives Driver the Finger, Gets Run Into!

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:22:01 GMT, Mike Vandeman
wrote:

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:38:54 -0800, Kamus of Kadizhar
wrote:

.On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:19:31 +0000, Mike Vandeman wrote:
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. On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 07:08:55 -0800, Kamus of Kadizhar
. wrote:
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. .On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:38:17 +0000, Mike Vandeman wrote: .
. . You DRIVE 6 minutes to work? Why not bike or walk? .
. .You've not seen too many metro-urban areas, have you? .
. .Many of our suburbs and cities have neglected pedestrians for so long
. that .it's often impossible to walk somewhere.
.
. Because?
.
.Because the pedestrians would have to cross highways, or unsignalized high
.speed intersections. Because there are no sidewalks. Because the
.town/city/utility leaves water meter lids open. Because the power company
.uses sidewalks to put up power poles. Because DOT uses the same sidewalk
.as a dump to sweep all the trash off the highway. Because there is an
.unwritten policy that in order to get a pedestrian crossing, there have
.to be at least 10 ped fatalities at that intersection in any given year
.(no, I'm not kidding about this.) And so on.

Pedestrians have the right-of-way at all intersections. You don't need a special
"crossing".
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There is the legal right-of-way, and the real world right-of-way.

Pedestrians are prohibited from walking along or across all limited
access highways.

There are many busy main streets near industrial parks and shopping
centers where pedestrians are not really welcome, as they do not have
crosswalks, crossing lights, or other pedestrian amenities.

You can not generalize from your lifestyle to every other person in
every other place.

Happy trails,
Gary (net.yogi.bear)
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